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NEW: Russia is quietly running nationwide mobilization readiness exercises testing its ability to house, feed, and arm a large influx of new recruits.

In one exercise in July, military officers flew from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad to oversee concrete mobilization planning for the exclave's residents. Similar tests are taking place across the country "in case the call is made." No decision has been taken by the Kremlin. Unlike the chaotic 2022 mobilization, Russia now has an electronic register of military-age men that would allow a more gradual process. Speculation centers on a possible call-up after Russia's September parliamentary elections. Source: WSJ

Three years ago today, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, military commander Dmitry Utkin, and their core leadership were killed when their jet broke apart mid-flight over Russia's Tver Region, exactly two months after their failed mutiny.

Videos showed the aircraft spiraling down missing a wing, with debris scattered across 3 km. Western intelligence assessed it as an onboard bomb. Putin claimed grenade fragments were found in the bodies but no official report was ever released. Wagner as an independent force effectively ended. Its fighters were absorbed into Russia's military, and African operations were rebranded as the state-controlled Africa Corps. Three years later, no definitive forensic conclusion has been publicly issued.

#BREAKING | 🇺🇸 — White House deputy national security adviser Andy Baker is leaving the administration in the coming weeks — Axios The Global Eye | Subscribe ✈️

🇷🇺 🇷🇺⚡️— Lev Schlossberg, deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, has been sentenced in Russia to 12 years and one month in a penal colony. He is accused of spreading "misinformation" and discrediting the Russian army. The case stems from a recording of a debate he published, in which he advocated for a swift end to the fighting between Russia and Ukraine. 🇪🇺 Legion Europa | Group Chat

Russia’s Supreme Court cancels registration of liberal opposition party Yabloko's federal list of candidates for State Duma elections The court found violations involving the unauthorized use of intellectual property in campaign materials (including song lyrics, images, and film footage). Claims of foreign financing were also presented during the hearing; extremism allegations were not upheld. Yabloko’s press service said the decision will be appealed. Supporters gathered outside the Supreme Court building in Moscow.

#BREAKING | 🇷🇺 — Major General Valery Plokhotnyuk of the Russian Armed Forces has died.

Independent Russian media, citing state registries, confirm his death on 1 August — the same day as the explosion outside the Balzi Rossi restaurant in central Moscow.

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We are all Natalya today 26.08.06 Russian woman vents at Putin’s senseless war:

To every f*cking bastard who supports this war, waits for the 'SMO' to achieve its goals, and still wants this bloodshed: go fight in it and die there!" May everyone who started this war be cursed. But I curse even more those who keep it going.

A Russian woman says: "To every f*cking bastard who supports this war, waits for the 'SMO' to achieve its goals, and still wants this bloodshed: go fight in it and die there!" May everyone who started this war be cursed. But I curse even more those who keep it going."

Buried under shroud of secrecy 26.08.06 Lt. Gen. Igor Yerusalimov, ~53, a senior Russian officer, was buried under heavy security in Moscow with multiple sources linking his death to the Aug 1 bombing at the Balzi Rossi restaurant.

Russian authorities haven't publicly confirmed his cause of death or named him as a victim.

Yerusalimov was a staff officer with operational-planning experience on the Ukrainian direction, promoted to lieutenant general in 2025.

Putin’s loyalists are disaffected 26.08.06 Moscow mayor and one of Putin's potential 'successors,' Sobyanin, said regarding the shift to a wartime footing,

To kill life, to kill a normal economy, is to kill the country itself

Is a mutiny in the offing?

"Putin is a weak president." Russian military analyst Klimov criticizes Putin's leadership, calling him a "weak president" isolated from reality by a system of systemic lies.

Internet is not working in Russia, and there's a massive disruption in the functioning of online services. Russian Internet is becoming more and more controlled by the state. This is probably preparation to the possible mobilization in the fall. Russians are, as usual, annoyed, but there are no organized massive protests.

Pavel the terrorist 26.08.03 Russia has designated Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram as a “terrorist” for refusing its demands for mass surveillance and censorship on Telegram. Under Russian law, Pavel is banned from “publishing information on the Internet” Russian officials have clearly got confused about who can ban whom from the Internet

Russian e-commerce giant Ozon has painted a huge message across the roof of its main logistics hub in Nizhny Novgorod reading:

This is not Wildberries. Fly past.

No ships on Navy Day.

For the second year running, Russia’s big fleet parade in St. Petersburg was quietly shelved.

Instead, Putin popped by the Main Admiralty, took video calls from his fleet commanders (safely on land), handed out medals for the war in Ukraine, and delivered the usual lines about “striking blows” and the mighty nuclear triad.

This is not Putin’s war; it’s the peoples war 26.07.26 Russian pseudo intellectual and quack philosopher Alexander Dugin claimed that Russia needs a mobilization and Putin must make a decision on it. A large-scale mobilization campaign in Russia in the fall of 2026 is yet to be announced. The likelihood is that it will be in late September or October. The Kremlin will not announce this in advance so as not to trigger a mass exodus and a decline in loyalty on the eve of parliamentary elections. The calendar follows a political logic. Before elections, it is not in the Kremlin‘s interest to stir up widespread anxiety. After the vote, the political cost drops sharply. September becomes the likely month of administrative preparations, and October - an apt time for mobilization. Russia is facing an increasingly severe shortage of manpower. Regions are increasing payments to contract soldiers and expanding recruitment among debtors, prisoners, the unemployed, foreigners, and socially vulnerable groups.

57-year-old Alexey Korshenko was found dead on the balcony of his apartment. According to Russian authorities, he hanged himself. Korshenko was Deputy Director General at Avia Group, the company that manages business aviation terminals at Sheremetyevo and Pulkovo airports. Avia Group also operates a helipad on Valaam Island, frequently used by Putin. According to Russian Telegram channels, Prigozhin's plane was serviced at Avia Group's terminal and departed for his fatal flight from there in August 2023. Over the past four years, more than two dozen top executives of major Russian companies- including Gazprom, Novatek, and Lukoil - have died under suspicious or unexplained circumstances.

Putin’s war goes wrong 26.07.18 Wildberries logistics centers in Russia's Moscow region (Elektrostal) and Tambov region (Kotovsk) overnight, igniting major fires at the e-commerce giant's facilities. A cloud of smoke hung over Moscow from the attack. Russian officials report seven workers killed and at least 24 injured at the Kotovsk site, with additional injuries in the Moscow region. Emergency services are responding to ongoing fires. Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, confirmed attacks on both sites and staff evacuations. The strikes are part of a broader wave of Ukrainian drone operations targeting Russian infrastructure.

Putin’s war goes wrong 26.07.18 Wildberries logistics centers in Russia's Moscow region (Elektrostal) and Tambov region (Kotovsk) overnight, igniting major fires at the e-commerce giant's facilities.

🇷🇺🇷🇺⚡️— Police have arrested Boris Nadezhdin. The infamous opposition politician announced that he is being taken to the Dolgoprudny police station in the Moscow region. 🇪🇺 Legion Europa | Group Chat